Lauren Toyota - MTV Host to Vegan Youtuber and Chef (Hot for Food)
You might recognize Lauren Toyota from her TV days as a former MTV and MuchMusic Canada Host. In 2014, she launched Hot for Food as a blog to share her vegan lifestyle. Hot for Food then expanded into a Youtube Channel which now has over 470,000 subscribers and over 35 million channel views. In 2018, she authored her first vegan cookbook, Vegan Comfort Classics: 101 Recipes to feed your Face, which became an instant best seller. Currently, she is devoted to creating engaging content on her Youtube channels, and working on her second cookbook.
In this episode, we talk about her transition as a tv host to a digital content creator, what it’s like to be a woman of color in the public eye, how she successfully launched Hot for Food and grew a massive online community, and how she balances being authentically herself in her personal vlogs, while still keeping some of her life private. Check out her delicious recipes either on her blog, cookbook or Youtube channel. Seriously, they are so easy to follow and they're vegan! I hope you enjoy this week's episode.